The energy future of the world depends strongly upon sustainable use and findind alternative sources. David McKay from Cambridge University has written a highly readable book called Sustainable Energy - Without The Hot Air on the issues involved and what we can do about it.

The tensor analysis notes from Rebecca Brannon are fine, provided you have the time to read through all the volumes. The following notes from Bashkir state univerisity (Russia) can be used for a short yet very general coverage of tensors. http://samizdat.mines.edu/tensors/ShR6b.pdf Much of the lesson is in the excercises.

I have updated the links to Rebecca Brannon's notes to reflect their new locations. The link to my notes on Elasticity have also been updated. Following Eric' s lead on wiki based content, I've converted the content of my course into wiki form. The new location is in Wikiversity at http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Elasticity .

There are many gaps in my notes that need to be filled. I felt that moving them to Wikiversity would make these notes more widely available and more useful. Please go to the wiki page and add content to the links marked in red. Also feel free to add, modify and clarify the content.

As the Fall semeste/quarter comes up, it will be particularly useful if a few of the students on iMechanica were to add content to Wikiversity based on what you have learned in your courses.

I am particularly interested in where the wiki idea leads us and whether online learning is possible. I would love to see students come up with lesson plans for the Elasticity course that can take the content and break it up into digestible bits. I would also like to see students suggest assignments that are appropriate for a beginner.

We have been posting lecture notes and other material from the internet here, but the have been freely available ones.

Sharing copyrighted ones is illegal and will also spoil the reputation of this forum. Okay I know there are thousands of other ways to get them online and we won't be helping the copyright holders much by refraining from doing it here. But still let us keep this forum professional and ethical.

This is the second time(including the comment just above) that I came across such a thing in imechanica and felt like speaking against it before it becomes a trend.

Mind you some of the authors of those pirated materials are the same people we are trying to convince into participating in this forum.

PS:
I do not necessarily agree with everything in these notes. In particular, I have been developing a *local* theory of quantum physics whereas what these notes give is the standard or mainstream view, and the latter is invaribly global in nature. (My work has, in a sense, just begun.) However, within the mainstream view, I do find that the above notes are the most simply, most straight-forwardly, or otherwise most helpfully written.

Both these sets are easily accessible to the non-physics majoring students, e.g., students of engineering. The first set comes from a chemist but is very easily accessible to the UG student of engineering. The second set is, in fact, written by a mechanical engineer--a CFD expert--himself. It's written for the advanced undergraduate or the beginning graduate student of mechanical engineering.

Two video courses of "Finite Element Procedures for Solids and Structures" are available in MIT Open CourseWare. Both courses were taught by Professor K.J. Bathe at MIT. The first course covers linear analysis, and the second course is for nonlinear analysis.

I just recently wrote a post on a set of lectures notes and accompanying code on micromechanics and homogenization. But I now noticed the note at the top of this page and wanted to give a link to the post here for your examination. The lecture material is presently on an external website. I would be happy to upload the material on this website if the content is found helpful.